If you're looking to save attached and/or inline images on your iPhone, you've come to the right place. Saving pictures from your e-mails on your iPhone is an easy feat and only requires a few minutes of your time. Read on to find helpful tips and tricks on this topic.

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Steps

Method 1 of 3: Saving An Attached Image To Your Photo Gallery

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Open your e-mails on your iPhone. Find the e-mail with the image you'd like to save. Open that email and scroll down until you see the image attachment. An attachment is basically a separate addition to the e-mail, and can usually be found at the very bottom of the e-mail[1].

Saving an image from an attachment is usually very easy and straightforward.

If the picture(s) you want to save are part of multiple e-mail conversations between the same people, you might not see the attachments until the very bottom of the e-mail thread. Simply scroll down all the way until you see the attachment(s).

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Touch the attached photo.Usually, all attachments download automatically as soon as you open your e-mails. If downloads are not completed by the time you reach your selected attachment, simply tapping and holding the photo will begin the saving process. [2].

A Share button will appear on the upper right side corner of the screen.

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Tap the Share button. Clicking on the button will give you a few sharing options.

Choose the Save To Photos (or Save Image) option.

Once you've clicked on the Save To Photos (or Save Image) option, your selected picture(s) will be placed in your iPhone's Photo Gallery.

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Give your e-mail server (Gmail in most cases) access to your phone's photos. Note that if this is the first time you're downloading a photo attachment, you'll need to grant your e-mail server access to the photos already taken in your device. Here are the steps to allow access:

Go to the Settings application in your iPhone.

Scroll down and select Privacy.

Then select Photos.

Turn on your e-mail server (most frequently Gmail).

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Go to your Photo Gallery. To make sure your image downloaded successfully, go to your iPhone's Photo Gallery and look for the picture. It should be the first one you see once you open the application.

Method 2 of 3: Saving An Attached Image To Your Cloud Drive

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Be sure your phone is running the latest iOS version. If you want your images to be accessible to you anytime anywhere, saving them to iCloud is a good solution[3]:

Go to your iPhone's Settings.

Click on General.

Tap on Software Update to find out if a new version is available. If there is, you'll see a Download and Install button at the bottom of the new update screen.

Click Download and Install, and wait for the update to finish.

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Set up iCloud. If you've just installed an update, or if you're turning on a new iOS device, simply follow the detailed set-up instructions provided by Apple on your device. They will take you through the process of setting up your iPhone with your desired features, such as iCloud. If you didn't install an update or turn on a new device but skipped the iCloud set up, follow these steps to activate iCloud on your phone[4]:

Click on the Settings button on the Home screen.

Go to iCloud.

Enter your Apple ID (same ID you use for iTunes purchases and downloads).

Turn on iCloud.

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Turn on My Photo Stream to automatically download your image attachments. This can be a great option if you know that you'll want to sync most of your images to iCloud and your other devices. Follow these steps to enable automatic downloading:

Go to your Home screen.

Tap the Settings icon.

Choose iCloud.

Click on Photos.

Turn on My Photo Stream.

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Remember to back up your photos. Pictures in My Photo Stream are saved on iCloud for 30 days. If you'd like to save and/back up these images, you have to save them from My Photo Stream to your device. Follow these steps[5]:

Choose the pictures you'd like to save.

Select Share .

Choose Save Image.

Now you can back your photos up with iCloud or iTunes.

Method 3 of 3: Saving An Inline Image To Your iPhone

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Go to the e-mail with the image embedded in the body. In this case, the image was not transmitted as an attachment but was placed directly in the body of the e-mail. Open the e-mail with the inline/embedded picture.

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Find the image in the e-mail. If there are multiple photos you'd like to save, save one photo at a time.

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Tap and hold your chosen image. About 1 to 2 seconds after you tap the picture you'll see two options for the photo[6]:

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